The most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema--an "Othello'' for our times.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The film that many consider the finest of its decade, Raging Bull, has aged well, and not just because it was filmed in black and white.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white. [14 Dec 1989, p.23]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon... It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Takes a cold, unflinching look at the violence both inside and outside of the ring.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
The entire film is played at such high pitch it may well exhaust audiences that don't come prepared. And, at the heart of the film, there is the mystery of Jake himself, but that is what separates Raging Bull from all other fight movies, in fact, from most movies about anything. Raging Bull is an achievement.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Steve Daly
Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Amy Taubin
What's most stunning about Raging Bull is the tension between 19th-century melodrama and 20th-century psychodrama, the narrative form brought into being by the conjunction of Freudian theory and the mechanics of the movie camera.Read Full Review »
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